Somerset Intermediate School Research Questions

Westover, Maryland

 

 

         What types of animals live In Deep Sea ?         

 
 

There are many deep sea creatures like the fang tooth, vent crab, deep sea octopus and many more creatures.

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My research question is : Can you take a life form from the deep ocean or will it die?

It will die because it is adapted to all of the pressure.

What are the differences between the dragonfish and the anglerfish?

The difference between a dragonfish and a angler fish is that angler fish look like a basket ball and a dragonfish is skinny. angler fish live on the second bottom level of the sea floor and a dragonfish lives at the very bottom. They use there organs in a different way because the angler fish uses it to hunt and the dragonfish uses it to warn some thing when it is to close.

 

Research Question: What kinds of tools are on the sub?

High Tech Tools

High Tech Tools like the Alvin is a submersible. It has a video camera, underwater telephone, computer data display recording system, sonar, sediment corers, temperature probes, magnetic meters, and more. It also has excellent robotic arms that can manipulate instruments ranging from water samples to temperature probes, and its basket can carry up to 680 kilograms. Alvin is 23 feet long and 12 feet high it is a 6.5 foot diameter.

 

How do they get food at the hydrothermal vents?

The hydrothermal vents are geyser located at the mid-ocean ridge system. The hydrothermal vents were first found in 1977 in the pacific ocean. Many vents occur at a average depth about 2,100 meters(7,000 ft). The temperature can be like 400*c (752*f ).

Bacteria from the tube worm in the hydrothermal vents use chemosynthesis.